Originally Posted October 2022 Our thoughts can run away with us. They pop in our head, like the uninvited dinner guest. Before you know it, those runaway thoughts sit down, strap on a bib and start helping themselves to heaping piles of the dinner we have prepared. Meanwhile, we look on helplessly wondering those thoughts came from and if there are enough mashed […]
A few days ago, in one of those moments where I knew it would happen before it happened, I dropped my phone in the lake. All alone in the boathouse at Mystic Waters, I held the lever to raise the boat on the lift. With my other hand, I held my phone. Or should I
Recently I caught myself second guessing a text I had sent. When I really looked at the process of “second guessing”, I realized that something else all-together was happening. I was explaining myself to myself in my head. But it wasn’t really me I was explaining myself to. What the heck did I just say?
Note: Today I’m sharing an excerpt from Chapter 2 of my new book, Dancing the Tightrope, What Falling Off a Horse Taught Me About Embracing Pressure, Fear and Uncertainty. In the following excerpt, we pick up the story soon after I fell off the horse. In this segment, I’m beginning to understand the accident through
Note: This blog post was originally published on August 4th 2017 as a bonus chapter in my book “The Power of Positive Intent: An Inspired Way to Deal with Change in Any Business.” Last year, I expanded the book and published it as, “The Elegant Pivot: An Inspired Move for Navigating Corporate Politics” I ended my
It’s no secret that I fell off a horse a few years ago and got back on – eventually. I went into the ride the day of the accident full of confidence. The day after the accident – and for another 15 months – I avoided even the idea of getting back on another horse.
